200th post!

I made it through another 100 posts! Well I will have by the end of this post. To follow tradition I will now proceed to list my favourite blogs this 100 under the following categories (although the categories aren't particularly well defined since they are a slight after thought!):

1. New favourite scientist /change of opinion - Since I haven't really found any scientist to replace Tesla, I mean that is going to take some beating! However in regards to changing opinions, I have constantly been changing my mind about which university to go to! I have now made up my mind on Nottingham as made official in this post and looking back I always liked but there was a lot of chop and change inbetween!
2. Coolest picture / coolest thing I did - the coolest picture I have made HAS to be this one, although it certainly doesn't win any prizes for the most realistic! However the coolest thing that I have done must be starting this world trip series because it feels good to get it out of my head!
3. Funniest post - the fact that I am struggling to think of this one is quite a worry... although anyone that knows me will concur that I am not a funny person! I suppose the Brian Cox mask is what gave me the most laughs.
4. Favourite experiment  / excuse to mention a favourite person - There haven't been a lot of experiments but I suppose that I have to say the most recent minstrel in hot chocolate experiment since i think I am still riding out the sugar rush! The best excuse to mention a non physics favourite person has got to be that post about Olly Murs!
5. Most interesting factual post - I suppose this is the one that I found most interesting whilst writing. It was about making music from radioactive patterns and was a completely new concept to me and I wanted to show it to everyone!

Cheers and here's to another 100 posts! Poor you!!

Things I should have blogged

I can't believe I missed my blog birthday! I'm so disappointed in myself.

I've also always planned to make a post when we started learning about special relativity in class. A momentous day, the day when the questions where finally answered, the day when the universe made sense, the day I could call myself a physicist. But the day never happened. Well, it happened just not the way I imagined! I still don't get it... I mean I get it what they are saying but not how or why! So I'm still holding out for that wonderful day... One day...

Since I last posted I got rejected from Imperial but am no closer to deciding where to put as my first choice. I've set myself a deadline of the weekend and have decided to try an emotional test to see where I really want to go. I have until Wednesday of wanting to go to Nottingham, then I will make myself want to go to Warwick until Saturday and see which was better/easier or just postpone the deadline when I realise yet again that I have absolutely no idea what I want.

Results day was last week! As it happens I did quite well in the end! In further maths AS, I now have an A grade without any resits which I am completely shocked and very proud of. All that geography tortuous revision paid off as I have an A there too now, only dropped 4 marks! And then physics and chemistry... I got B's in both so will resit but it isn't the end of the world by any means! Except that I need an A in physics... And then had an end of unit test for physics last week and got 59%... Things aren't looking too great for physics in the summer! Maybe geography would be a better choice for me for uni... LOL! Today I spent a whole geography lesson looking at random videos such as this one. The dance moves are quite special...


I also got a new nerdy T-shirt:

I love it!!

Satelites and veiws

Ahhhh, I reached 1000 views!! I realise that at least half of these will have been my own but I can't help but treat this as another milestone! This blog has been a great source of pleasure and relief for me and I'm glad to actually be doing something.

I'm currently watching (well half watching half writing this!) a video on  Iplayer about how to build a satellite. Its pretty cool to see inside a manufacturing lab, they all wear funny hair nets. I'd hate that because it seems enough of a hassle to just tie my hair up in Chemistry. Satellites have really become a major part of our everyday live and apart from considering their orbits I have taken their design for granted. For example they have to be really well insulated so as to still work under space conditions. They are really expensive to build and they have to take extreme caution when building them with great precision. The people who work there seem really friendly and act like normal people even though they are actual space scientists!! Although maybe its more understandable if they are really actors for the programme... Anyway I'll have to watch the rest later, I have a load of physics homework to do!

Good Times

I have another university visit tomorrow and I just can't bear to have my 100th post, the one I seem to have been falling towards for months now, to be wasted on another university visit...

And so instead I have decided to waste it on a self gratifying look back at the past 100 entries that I have made! Its always fun to look back at old posts and laugh at myself.

1. I was so naive back then thinking Brian Cox was so brilliant in this post, I had no idea that some so awesome as Nikola Tesla could have existed! My moment of enlightenment was on this day and I will forever treasure this moment!
2. And probably the best thing this blog has allowed me to do was a picture in this post because I always have stupid ideas like this but never actually do them but this time I really did it and it was brilliant! At least I felt brilliant for doing it!
3. I know it is awful to laugh at your own jokes but who honestly doesn't! So the calculator series here are what I most enjoyed writing even though they aren't very much to do with physics...
4. My favourite experiment was this one because I think it demonstrated aerodynamics perfectly, taught me a new party trick, allowed me to involve my favourite Glee star and it was successful which is always a  bonus! Plus there is no cringey video to make me shudder when I look back at it!
5. My favourite factual post is my first one because I was really fascinated by what I had learnt and wanted to share it with everybody! My poor parents have been putting up with that behavior for years (I can remember trying to explain to my mum what full stops are!) but this was the first time I shared that kind of thing with actual people. Not that my parents are robots or anything.. Well, you know what I mean!

Ah, good times :) I think I needed those flashbacks, thanks for your patience xx

Ps. I got an A in my Physics AS!! Sorry, can't believe it took me so long to write about it!